| 1915 | Born 16 December in Fatezh, near Kursk |
| 1929-32 | Studies music in Kursk |
| 1932-36 | Studies with Mikhail Yudin at Central Music Technicum, Leningrad |
| 1935 | 6 Pushkin Songs |
| 1937-41 | Studies with Shostakovich at the Leningrad Conservatoire |
| 1938 | 7 Lermontov Songs |
| 1936-9 | First Piano Concerto |
| 1937 | First Symphony |
| 1938-58 | Rural Lyricism, 7 songs |
| 1940 | Symphony for String Orchestra |
| 1941 | Graduates from Leningrad Conservatoire |
| 3 Blok Songs | |
| 1942 | Second Piano Concerto |
| Othello, incidental music | |
| 1944 | Piano Sonata |
| Shakespeare Suite (songs) | |
| 2 Songs of Iago | |
| 1945 | Piano Trio [rev 1955] |
| 1945-6 | First String Quartet |
| 1946-60 | Partitas for piano |
| 1947 | Second String Quartet |
| 1948-57 | Children's Pieces for piano |
| 1949 | Second Symphony (unfinished) |
| 1950 | Land of My Fathers for tenor, bass, and piano |
| 1951 | Bright Lights (Sparks), operetta |
| 1952 | Ruy Blas, serenade |
| 1953 | Marries Elza Gustavovna Klazer |
| 1955 | Burns Songs for bass and piano |
| The Decembrists, oratorio | |
| 1955-6 | Poem in Memory of Sergey Yesenin, oratorio |
| 1956 | My Father Is A Peasant, for tenor, bass, and piano |
| 1957 | 8 Songs |
| 1958 | 5 Choruses to Words by Russian Poets |
| 1959 | Pathetic Oratorio |
| 1960 | Poem About Lenin, cantata |
| 1961-3 | St Petersburg Songs for voices and piano trio |
| 1963 | People's Artist of the RSFSR |
| A Voice from the Chorus, song | |
| 1964 | Kursk Songs |
| Russia the Wooden, miniature cantata | |
| Miniature Triptych for orchestra | |
| Music for Chamber Orchestra | |
| The Snowstorm, film music | |
| 1965 | Snow Is Falling, miniature cantata |
| 1966 | Time, Forward!, film music |
| 1967 | 2 Yesenin Choruses |
| 1969-72 | Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich, incidental music |
| 1970 | People's Artist of the USSR |
| 1971-76 | The Radiant Guest, cantata |
| 1972 | 3 Blok Songs |
| 1972-5 | 3 Miniatures for chorus |
| 1973 | Concerto In Memory of Alexander Yurlov for chorus |
| 1974 | Spring Cantata |
| 1975 | Hero of Soviet Labour |
| 3 Pieces from Children's Albums for chorus | |
| 1977 | Russia Off Her Moorings, song |
| 1978 | Hymns to the Motherland for chorus |
| 1978-80 | Concerto for Chorus: Pushkin's Garland |
| 1979 | The Night Clouds for chorus |
| 1998 | Dies 5 January in Moscow |